" In 1818 a considerable number of slaves were captured by the United States authorities on the vessels "Constitution", "Louisa", and "Merino". The trouble which they caused the government is famous. Aside from the information on the case itself, the papers in the claims for remuneration for care of the captive negroes, made by F. W. Armstrong, John Haines, and Taliaferro Livingston, set down in detail facts relating to the cost of keeping negroes, the value of slave labor, etc."
THE AFRICAN OBSERVER ~ Enoch Lewis
It is certainly a curious anomaly in legislation, that during the summer of 1818, three American schooners, viz: the Louisa, Constitu tion and Merino, with American registers, which had sailed, the two former from New Orleans, and the other from Mobile, cleared out from Havanna, in the island of Cuba for the ports, from which they had respectively sailed, with a number of slaves on board, and being captured within the jurisdiction of the United States, were libelled in the United States* court for the territory of Alabama. After a protracted trial, the surviving slaves found on board the Constitution, were adjudged to the Spanish claimants, and were sold by their legal representatives, at public sale in the city of Mobile. The others werecondemned as forfeited to the United States, and ordered to be publicly sold by the Marshal in the same city. See President's message to Con gress, March 8, 1826.
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1818, June. Constitution, captured with 84 slaves on the Florida coast, by a United States army officer. See references under 1818, June, below.
1818, June. Louisa and Merino, captured slavers, smuggling from Cuba to the United States; condemned after five years’ litigation. House Doc., 15 Cong. 2 sess. VI. No. 107; 19 Cong. 1 sess. VI.—IX. Nos. 121, 126, 152, 163; House Reports, 19 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 231; American State Papers, Naval Affairs, II. No. 308; Decisions of the United States Supreme Court in 9 Wheaton, 391.
THE AFRICAN OBSERVER ~ Enoch Lewis
It is certainly a curious anomaly in legislation, that during the summer of 1818, three American schooners, viz: the Louisa, Constitu tion and Merino, with American registers, which had sailed, the two former from New Orleans, and the other from Mobile, cleared out from Havanna, in the island of Cuba for the ports, from which they had respectively sailed, with a number of slaves on board, and being captured within the jurisdiction of the United States, were libelled in the United States* court for the territory of Alabama. After a protracted trial, the surviving slaves found on board the Constitution, were adjudged to the Spanish claimants, and were sold by their legal representatives, at public sale in the city of Mobile. The others werecondemned as forfeited to the United States, and ordered to be publicly sold by the Marshal in the same city. See President's message to Con gress, March 8, 1826.
http://168-143-89-185-compute-ag1-ash01.opsourcecloud.net/reader_17700_156.htm
1818, June. Constitution, captured with 84 slaves on the Florida coast, by a United States army officer. See references under 1818, June, below.
1818, June. Louisa and Merino, captured slavers, smuggling from Cuba to the United States; condemned after five years’ litigation. House Doc., 15 Cong. 2 sess. VI. No. 107; 19 Cong. 1 sess. VI.—IX. Nos. 121, 126, 152, 163; House Reports, 19 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 231; American State Papers, Naval Affairs, II. No. 308; Decisions of the United States Supreme Court in 9 Wheaton, 391.
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